# Write a short video

## Brief
- Who is this for?
- What do they already know?
- What is the one idea?
- Which facts and experiences can you support? Add sources and dates.
- What belongs in a different video?

## Three openings
1. Opening:
   What it promises:
2. Opening:
   What it promises:
3. Opening:
   What it promises:

## Body and screen
Draft the body, then note what the viewer needs to see beside each beat.
Cut explanation that the visual already supplies.

## Ending
What should the viewer understand or do now?

## Read aloud
- Actual runtime:
- Lines that were difficult to say:
- Repetition to cut:
- Claims to check:
- One line a reader found confusing:

## Practice script
Written for this guide using Tushaar's February 2026 newsletter about Bangers Only.
This is a teaching example; its performance has not been tested.

I got my little tweet-writing app to 100 users. Two months earlier, adding a login screen felt like a reason to keep the whole thing private.

I was worried about authentication, cloud setup, connecting external services. Every new account felt like one more way to break something or end up with a bill I couldn't afford.

But I wanted people to use the thing. So I had to work through the parts I'd been avoiding.

That's how I started learning what all of it actually did. Auth, databases, email, the bits around the product that I used to find boring. Now I had a reason to care.

I still had plenty to learn. Getting to 100 users didn't make me an engineer overnight. It gave me a product I could keep working on, and much more specific questions to ask.

If you've got a small idea, start there. See what it makes you learn.

Guide: https://www.tushaarmehtaa.xyz/scriptwriting
Source: https://tushaarmehtaa.substack.com/p/youre-not-as-good-as-you-think